Choosing the best (smart)phone or tablet for mobile learning can be quite a challenge. The amount of features you want to use will also allow you to purchase a low or high cost smartphone or mobiledevice. Let's say you want to explore mobile learning, these are some of your options. What can you opt for in a high-end phone, tablet or mobiledevice?

Back in 2007 when I began this blog, the main thrust was sharing ideas about why mobiledevices can improve teaching and learning. Now in 2013, not only has the use of mobiledevices become much more widespread both in schools and society at large, but the attitudes toward the use of mobiledevices for learning has changed. They need to augment their ideas.

Using an iPhone as a musical device is an interesting application of a cell phone. While known as a music player designed to allow users to consume music, developers have created apps that can transform the iPhone into a musical device to create music as well. This, however, is not the only way to use an iPhone as a musical device. The video below profiles experiments being conducted at Stanford University in using a mobiledevice such as an iPhone/iPod Touch to create a mobilephone orchestra.

Mobile learning is certainly a hot discussion topic with elearning and training solutions providers in Australia – like anywhere else in the world. In my meetings with clients and prospects in Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne over that last couple of weeks, it is clear that the interest in mobile learning is very strong. Device to Access Information. Used as a Part of the Blend.

Choosing the best phone for mobile learning can be quite a challenge. The amount of features you want to use will also allow you to purchase a low or high cost smartphone or mobiledevice. Let's say you want to explore mobile learning, these are some of your options. What can you opt for in a high-end phone or mobiledevice?

In discussing the use of mobiledevices, it is easy to forget that the educational and productive power of mobiledevices comes through the integration of the devices with other tools. The mobiledevice, after all, is a hardware tool that makes certain tasks possible but the actualization of those tasks ultimately depends on the use of software or web tools.

Only a few short years ago, when mobiledevices were still mainly cell phones and music players, the thought of a mobile revolution supplanting the computer revolution seemed distant. However, we have seen a major shift in the way we use communication technologies mainly because wireless access to the Internet has improved dramatically and major investments have been made, and continue to be made, in mobile hardware and software. What will the immediate future of mobility look like? Desktop vs. Mobile OS. This, again, is a battle of philosphies.
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Very interesting research has just been published by the Tomorrow Group (Speak Up 2009) about mobilephones and education. 63% of parents say they would buy their child a cell phone if they knew it would be used for educational purposes ONLY 18% of parents dismiss mobiledevices as not having a positive impact on learning. Potential Benefits of Using Cell Phones in Learning According to PARENTS! Here are a few highlights: PARENTS SAY YES!
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Recently we’ve made the UpsideLMS compatible to mobiledevices and also launched a new version – UpsideLMS Version 4.0. While ensuring compliance, we encountered some interesting issues in the implementation of SCORM and found very little help online about implementing SCORM for mobiledevices. Mobiledevices have limitations: - Screen size. Mobile browsers now almost fully support JavaScript and this makes it possible to implement SCORM using JS support. For identifying devices we used the information in request headers.
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My post on whether “ eLearning on Tablets is really Mobile Learning ” generated quite a bit of interest, with lots of ReTweets and replies on Twitter, many Blog comments, at least 71 people casted their votes, and at least two other bloggers posted their own thoughts based on my post. My goal with this post was to start a conversation around what should be considered mobile learning and propose some questions we can use to judge whether a learning experience on is indeed “ uniquely mobile.” Is that Mobile learning? Is that Mobile learning?
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